Astronaut legend and decorated World War II pilot John H. Glenn, who served for 24 years in the U.S. Senate and inspired young people to pursue careers in sciences and engineering, died Dec. 8. He was 95.
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Members of Catholic New York’s editorial department selected favorite books they’ll be reading, and perhaps giving, this Christmas season. The selections offer reading pleasures ranging from Pope Francis’ answers to questions from children around the world to a first-time novel by CNY’s Juliann DosSantos about the adventures, and misadventures, of a rookie Catholic journalist. Former Jets quarterback and current Mets minor leaguer Tim Tebow offers a spiritual prescription for finding your true identity, and readers facing loss may find comfort in Margaret Carlson’s “The Christmas Angel Project.”
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“Our beloved country is at war. Our peaceful shores have been ruthlessly attacked, and all citizens are called upon to unite their efforts toward that peace for which we have all prayed, that peace which the world cannot give, and that peace which God will surely bring about when mankind has seen its folly and conforms its ways to his.”
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St. Mary’s Catholic Church was at ground zero in the wildfires that devastated parts of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge Nov. 28, and while flames reached to within yards of the tourist city church, it appears to have been spared.
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